Morning Roundup - Transfiguration of the Lord - Commem.: SS. Sixtus II & Companions - August 6th, 2015

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP (Bishop Emeritus Rene Gracida) >> BRAVO BISHOP DAVID KAGAN OF BISMARCK, N.D.; MAY YOUR TRIBE INCREASE !!!
• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP (Bishop Emeritus Rene Gracida) >> THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES IS SHRINKING, IT WOULD BE WORSE BUT FOR IMMIGRATION
• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP (Bishop Emeritus Rene Gracida) >> JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN IS ALIVE AND REIGNING IN CHICAGO !!!
• Aleteia (Team Aleteia) >> Church Bells in France to Ring for Persecuted Christians in the Mideast
• Aleteia (Andrew Liaugminas) >> A Handbook of Logical Fallacies: The Defense of Planned Parenthood 
• Aleteia (Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ) >> Does God Have Good News for Gays?
• Bangor to Bobbio (Fr. Seán Coyle) >> The Transfiguration 70 years ago in Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> Chinese bishop ordained in public for the first time since 2012
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (William Oddie) >> The German bishops have declared independence from Rome on same-sex marriage: how far will the rot spread now?
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Raymond de Souza) >> Kraków, the city of the century
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (William Oddie) >> Here we go again: another ill-informed attack on Bishop Egan and the Friars of the Immaculate
• Catholic Stand  (Felix Whelan) >> The Real Reason Christianity is in Decline in America
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Bisho-elect Robert Barron) >> Why You Need Spiritual Food
• Clutching My Rosary >> Transfiguration of Our Lord
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Sixtus II, Pope and Martyr, and Ss. Felicissimus and Agapitus, Martyrs
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Simple but Powerful Definition of Prayer
• Crisis Magazine (John M. Grondelski) >> The Proper Role of Eucharistic Ministers 
• Crisis Magazine (Samuel Gregg) >> It’s Time for an Encyclical on Christian Persecution
• Crisis Magazine (Mitchell Kalpakgian) >> Dr. Johnson: Man of Letters, Christian Moralist, Clubbable Man, and Noble Hero
• Dominicana Journal (The Editor) >> Faith’s Explicit Content
• Dymphna's Road >> The sword of Hilary
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> The Battle of Belgrade and S Xystus
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> Mark Spencer
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Latin Tweet from Pope Francis
• Harvesting the Fruit of Vatican II (Louie Verrechio) >> Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum!
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Bishop David Kagan of Bismarck, ND Cuts Ties to Boy Scouts
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> New Hampshire Joins Louisiana in Cutting Funds to Planned Parenthood!
• One Mad Mom >> Cupich’s Moral Equivalencies Are Not So Equivalent
• On This Rock (Fr. John Hollowell) >> NEW Catholics Come Home Promo
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> MELINDA GATES AND HER CORRUPT (BANKRUPT) AMERICAN-CENTRIC IDEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR AFRICA, ONE AFRICAN WOMAN'S PLEA!
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> GOOD POLICY OR A KNEE-JERK REACTION? I REPORT; YOU DECIDE!
• The Catholic Thing (Howard Kainz) >> Hell, You Say?
• The Imaginative Conservative (Stephen Masty) >> Newspeak, Tribal Warfare & Coming to Grips with Diversity
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Evil as a defect in the good 
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Transfiguration of Our Lord August 6th
• Unam Sanctam Catholicam (Maximus) >> Not Abandoning the Boy Scouts of America... Yet
• Views From the Choir Loft (Jeff Ostrowski) >> Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)